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News Articles: mass shooting

A person reacts during a hearing for Patrick Crusius, the Walmart mass shooter, at the Enrique Moreno County Courthosue in El Paso, Texas, April 21, 2025.

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  • National

El Paso Walmart shooter receives rebuke and forgiveness as he gets 23 life sentences

Victims and families of the people who died in the 2019 attack offered impact testimonies as trial ends. "I have no more room for hate in my heart," said Yvonne Gonzalez, who lost her parents.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Aaron Montes
An Indian security officer patrols a shopping area in Pahalgam a day after militants indiscriminately opened fire on tourists near the town, Indian controlled Kashmir on Wednesday.

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  • Asia

Kashmir experiences worst civilian attack in years, coinciding with Vance India visit

Police accused rebels of masterminding the attack, which sparked outrage and drew international condemnation, including from U.S. President Donald Trump.

April 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Students kneel in front of a makeshift memorial in front of Apalachee High School on in Winder, Ga., on Thursday, one day after two students and two teachers were shot and killed at the school.

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  • National

These are the 2 students and 2 teachers killed at Apalachee High School in Georgia

Just one month into the school year, four people were ripped away from their loved ones, their lives ended by a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Yellow tape blocks off the parking lot of the Forest Park Blue Line train station in Forest Park, Ill., after four people were fatally shot on the train early Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.

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  • National

4 people were killed on a train in the Chicago area on Labor Day, police say

The suspect initially escaped from the scene, but was later found through Chicago Transit Authority surveillance video. Police now have the person in custody and seized a firearm in their possession.

September 03, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Police officers keep watch Thursday near the scene outside Frank and Estella Beam Hall, where the UNLV Lee Business School is located, the morning after a shooting left three dead at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.

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  • National

3 UNLV faculty members were killed in the Las Vegas campus shooting

For students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wednesday's campus shooting was a stark statement on the prevalence of gun violence — and a fresh reminder of the city's tragic history.

December 07, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson,
  • Vanessa Romo,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

How the U.S. gun violence death rate compares with the rest of the world

The grim news of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine — and a spate of shootings over the weekend — has again cast a spotlight on the gun violence death rate in the U.S..

October 31, 2023
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Photos of some of the victims of the Lewiston mass shooting are seen during the vigil.

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  • National

Photos: Maine shooting victims remembered at community vigil

Over 1,500 people gathered to mourn the victims of the Lewiston mass shooting. Wednesday night's attack at a bowling alley and a bar left 18 people dead and 13 injured.

October 30, 2023
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  • Raquel C. Zaldívar
The state of Maine on Friday released photos of the 18 victims killed Wednesday in the mass shooting in Lewiston.

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  • National

What we know about the victims in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting

Eighteen people were killed in this week's mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. Authorities have identified all of the victims.

October 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie and
  • Emily Olson
An armed police officer guards the ambulance entrance to the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, early on Oct. 26, 2023. A massive manhunt was under way for 40-year-old Robert Card, who officials identified as a person of interest.

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  • National

Manhunt continues for 'person of interest' in deadly Maine shootings

A Maine public safety commissioner said Robert Card, 40, should be considered armed and dangerous. The official declined to give casualty numbers in Lewiston, saying they're "are all over the map."

October 26, 2023
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  • NPR Staff
Law enforcement respond to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Monday after the university locked down and warned of an armed person on campus.

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  • Education

The front page of UNC's Daily Tar Heel was a gut punch. Here's the story behind it

In the midst of a school shooting, UNC's student journalists kicked into action, covering the story as it unfolded. Now, the paper's front page — a block of heart-wrenching texts — is earning praise.

September 03, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Residents of the Jacksonville community attend a prayer vigil for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla.

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  • National

People mourn victims of the Florida shooting as a hate crime investigation begins

At an evening vigil near the Dollar General store where the attack occurred, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was met with boos from the crowd as he stepped to the microphone.

August 28, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson,
  • Juliana Kim,
  • and 1 more
Gaylan Blizzard, right hugs a woman during a vigil for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Hampton, Ga.

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  • News

4 slain in Georgia mass shooting memorialized as neighbors gather for candlelight vigil

Four victims of a shooting in an Atlanta suburb are being remembered as loving relatives, an expert locksmith and beautiful singer. Residents of Hampton gathered Monday to hold a prayer vigil in their honor, two days after they were shot and killed by another resident of their neighborhood.

July 18, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A police vehicle stands guard in the Dogwood Lakes neighborhood in Hampton, Ga., on Sunday, July 16, 2023. Police say a man who lived in the brick house in the background shot and killed four people in the neighborhood on Saturday, July 15.

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  • News

Mother says man who killed 4 people in Georgia needed mental help for years but refused treatment

The 40-year-old man who shot four in the country's 31st mass killing this year needed mental help for nearly a decade but his family and officials couldn't force him to get treatment, his mother said.

July 18, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett speaks on Sunday, July 16, 2022, in Hampton, Ga, while flanked by other police and local officials. Scandrett announced that officers shot and killed Andre Longmore on Sunday, a day after officials say Longmore shot and killed four Hampton residents.

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  • News

Georgia mass shooting suspect is killed during intense search and 3 officers are wounded, police say

Authorities say officers killed a man in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest the suspect in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta. Officials add a sheriff's deputy and two police officers were wounded Sunday while trying to take 40-year-old Andre Longmore into custody.

July 17, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A bullet casing is seen at the site of a mass shooting in the Brooklyn Homes neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday. Two people were killed and 28 others were wounded during the shooting at a block party on Saturday night.

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  • Health

July has already seen 11 mass shootings. The emotional scars won't heal easily

There have been nearly a dozen mass shootings this month and a total 346 mass shootings so far this year — each one leaving a heavy toll for communities around them.

July 05, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
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